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Rain Man
10-24-2004, 11:01 PM
The following suckish, referee-aided teams are currently leading their divisions and are in line for a playoff spot.

New England 6-0
Pittsburgh 5-1
Jacksonville 5-1
Denver 5-1


In the wild card race, we have the following rankings:

N.Y. Jets 5 1 0
Baltimore 4 2 0
Indianapolis 4 2 0
San Diego 4 3 0
Houston 3 3 0
Cleveland 3 4 0
Kansas City 2 4 0
Oakland 2 5 0
Tennessee 2 5 0
Cincinnati 1 4 0
Buffalo 1 5 0
Miami 1 6 0

The Jets play Miami and Buffalo the next two weeks, and so should move to 7-1.

The Ravens play Philadelphia and Cleveland, and so should go to 5-3. We have the tiebreaker on them.

San Diego plays Oakland and New Orleans, and should move to 6-3, but we know that they'll choke at some point.

Houston plays Jacksonville and Denver, and so will likely drop to 3-5.

Cleveland has a bye and then plays Baltimore, and will likely go to 3-5.

Indianapolis plays Kansas City and Minnesota. They can definitely be beaten by Minnesota. Losses to KC and Minnesota would put them at 4-4, with KC having the tiebreaker.

We play Indianapolis and Tampa Bay. We should beat Tampa, so a victory over both teams would put us at 4-4, which put us 4th in the tiebreakers, but only 1/2 a game behind the Ravens (including the tiebreaker), and only 1 game behind San Diego, who we play twice.

With a Kansas City victory, the standings have a good chance of looking like this, with the Chiefs holding tiebreakers over both Baltimore and Indianapolis. That's not too bad.

N.Y. Jets 7 1 0
San Diego 6 3 0
Baltimore 5 3 0
Kansas City 4 4 0
Indianapolis 4 4 0
Houston 3 5 0
Cleveland 3 5 0
Oakland who cares?
Tennessee who cares?
Cincinnati who cares?
Buffalo who cares?
Miami who cares?

On the other hand, a Kansas City loss to Indy would most likely lead to this scenario, with the Chiefs losing tiebreakers to Indianapolis and Houston.

N.Y. Jets 7 1 0
San Diego 6 3 0
Baltimore 5 3 0
Indianapolis 5 3 0
Houston 3 5 0
Kansas City 3 5 0
Cleveland 3 5 0
Oakland who cares?
Tennessee who cares?
Cincinnati who cares?
Buffalo who cares?
Miami who cares?

This is an important game.

el borracho
10-24-2004, 11:05 PM
Will this game be nationally televised?

Rain Man
10-24-2004, 11:06 PM
Dunno. I hope so.

tk13
10-24-2004, 11:10 PM
Will this game be nationally televised?
I don't think so... there are a lot of big matchups next week. I believe Baltimore/Philly is CBS' top early game next week.

Demonpenz
10-24-2004, 11:11 PM
next game important, stephen davis is out 3-5 weeks

David.
10-24-2004, 11:12 PM
eh, it's hard to guess that teams will win on a week to week basis. The parity in the nfl. For all we know, SD and NYJ won't win another game, and Cleveland will go undefeated. I think we just need to worry about beating Indy. If we win 9 of our next 10 games we'll be in no matter what.

go bo
10-24-2004, 11:28 PM
The following suckish, referee-aided teams are currently leading their divisions and are in line for a playoff spot.

New England 6-0
Pittsburgh 5-1
Jacksonville 5-1
Denver 5-1


In the wild card race, we have the following rankings:

N.Y. Jets 5 1 0
Baltimore 4 2 0
Indianapolis 4 2 0
San Diego 4 3 0
Houston 3 3 0
Cleveland 3 4 0
Kansas City 2 4 0
Oakland 2 5 0
Tennessee 2 5 0
Cincinnati 1 4 0
Buffalo 1 5 0
Miami 1 6 0

The Jets play Miami and Buffalo the next two weeks, and so should move to 7-1.

The Ravens play Philadelphia and Cleveland, and so should go to 5-3. We have the tiebreaker on them.

San Diego plays Oakland and New Orleans, and should move to 6-3, but we know that they'll choke at some point.

Houston plays Jacksonville and Denver, and so will likely drop to 3-5.

Cleveland has a bye and then plays Baltimore, and will likely go to 3-5.

Indianapolis plays Kansas City and Minnesota. They can definitely be beaten by Minnesota. Losses to KC and Minnesota would put them at 4-4, with KC having the tiebreaker.

We play Indianapolis and Tampa Bay. We should beat Tampa, so a victory over both teams would put us at 4-4, which put us 4th in the tiebreakers, but only 1/2 a game behind the Ravens (including the tiebreaker), and only 1 game behind San Diego, who we play twice.

With a Kansas City victory, the standings have a good chance of looking like this, with the Chiefs holding tiebreakers over both Baltimore and Indianapolis. That's not too bad.

N.Y. Jets 7 1 0
San Diego 6 3 0
Baltimore 5 3 0
Kansas City 4 4 0
Indianapolis 4 4 0
Houston 3 5 0
Cleveland 3 5 0
Oakland who cares?
Tennessee who cares?
Cincinnati who cares?
Buffalo who cares?
Miami who cares?

On the other hand, a Kansas City loss to Indy would most likely lead to this scenario, with the Chiefs losing tiebreakers to Indianapolis and Houston.

N.Y. Jets 7 1 0
San Diego 6 3 0
Baltimore 5 3 0
Indianapolis 5 3 0
Houston 3 5 0
Kansas City 3 5 0
Cleveland 3 5 0
Oakland who cares?
Tennessee who cares?
Cincinnati who cares?
Buffalo who cares?
Miami who cares?

This is an important game.thanks for the info and insightful analysis, rain person...

every game will be big for us (because of the hole we dug for ourselves)...

but the indy game is particularly important, as you so artfully described...

and, after today, it sure looks like we can win, even against indy...

while the colts o may score some on our d, our d is much better than last time we played and our o looks like it has come to life (56 points???)...

if we can score 8 (count 'em 8) rushing td's against the "number one rush defense", we should be able to score at will against indy's weaker d...

this is shaping up to be a great game... [licking chops smilie] :D :thumb:

Pants
10-24-2004, 11:38 PM
Who would have thunk it that Miami was going to rape the Sheep? Like David said, you never know.

WebGem
10-25-2004, 12:13 AM
jax is 5-2 not 5-1

Rain Man
10-31-2004, 05:26 PM
This week is turning out pretty well for us so far.

ROYC75
10-31-2004, 05:29 PM
Uh, sorry, with 4 losses, every game is important. We need to be in a playoff type mode for every game.

Nightfyre
10-31-2004, 05:29 PM
We need to win this next week because Ive been over trash talking on the bucs boards. Showing them statistical comparisons etc....
http://bbs.buccaneers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=9
you guys should come too :D

Frazod
10-31-2004, 05:29 PM
Uh, sorry, with 4 losses, every game is important. We need to be in a playoff type mode for every game.

What he said. We must not lose.